Lassa fever

During the Civil War, medicine was an important aspect for every soldier due to the fact that many soldiers had to fight and ended up with injuries also there were many types of illnesses. In this essay, I will focus on the advance of medicine during the Civil War. Also how the soldiers and civilians were treated as well as how sanitize their location was, are questions I will try to answer. Also, I will like to include some of most known causes of deaths during the Civil War and the types of diseases

mom and dad rushed downstairs to see what was wrong with Tiny Tim. They tried to find the closest hospital. The closest one was 5 miles. They drove as fast as they can to save their son. By the time they got to the hospital, they predicted he had a fever of 105 degrees. The doctors let Tiny Tim get treated right away. They said that he had a very slim chance of still living. About a 10% chance to stay alive. The doctor tried their best to save him, but they said that his best chance would be to go

Human Subjects Research: Protection of Human Subjects: The current proposal involves testing of deidentified samples from dengue patients. All collection of dengue samples from patients was carried out in the CDC. A total of 60 acute serum samples were collected from febrile patients in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica (2009–2011) suspected of having dengue 0–5 days after onset of symptoms and whose average age was 14.3 years, in a study approved by the CDC IRB. Related Research or R&D: This section summarizes

There was once a time in my life where everything was perfect. There were smiles, toys, good times, friendships and playgrounds. This period of time was my early childhood when the only time I became sick was when I fell during my joyous playtimes. However, as I grew older, the world and my environment changed. I always tried to keep healthy by maintaining the right diet and taking vitamins. Despite this, something terrible happened to me on December 12th, 2015. December 12th, 2015 was just another

immitis and C posadasii, fungal pathogens that cause valley fever in humans, have usually been located in hot, dry states like California, Arizona, and Utah, but recently it has also moved to Washington State, which is considered a humid state. This situation shows how climate change is having an effect on this state by making it dryer and allowing these pathogens to habituate and spread here. Furthermore, in Arizona, the annual cases of valley fever increased from 33 to 43/100,000 people between 1998 and

ZIKA VIRUS EPIDEMIC – A GLOBAL CONCERN: “The level of concern is high as is the level of uncertainty,” said the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General –Dr Margaret Chan when briefing the executive board on the Zika situation in Geneva on 28th January 2016. She also mentioned four main reasons as to why the WHO is deeply concerned about the Zika situation, which include the virus’ virulence, potential for further international spread, lack of population immunity and lack of vaccines, specific

1. Introduction Mass casualty situations are common with most of the natural disasters like earth quake, tsunami, flood, avalanche, explosion, accidents, building collapse, military operations and terrorism. Injuries and wound infections are very common in such disasters that need immediate management; otherwise it may lead to morbidity and mortality. Medical management is very difficult at that situation as the access to hospital sector would be either not possible or difficult. Autoinjectors are

Clinical Decision Making A. BB called from home at 0600 to the L&D unit that she was having an intense contraction. Upon phone interview, the charged nurse asked her to come in. At 0730, BB came in with her husband and a six years old daughter, and she was admitted to the unit. She was placed on the monitor while the assigned nurse continued the assessment. At 0830, she had dilated to 10cm, and she delivered shortly after that. Delivery was successful without any complication. She was GA 39+1 weeks

BIOTERRORISM INTRODUCTION Bioterrorism is the use of infectious agents that are harmful to humans as weapons of terrorism. Agents of bioterrorism include bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, fungi, and biological toxins. Bioterrorism can cause high mortality and morbidity thus lead to social disruption and public panic. This phenomenon already occur in 17 century where American revolution, colonial British military officers gave blankets containing smallpox scabs to native Americans with serious intent

Disease: Scarlet fever B. Scarlet fever is an acute and communicable disease. The symptoms associated with scarlet fever are a red rash that feels like sandpaper, a sore throat, and a high fever. It is a disease that mainly affects children who are 5-15 years old, but “anyone can get scarlet fever.” (CDC, 2017). Scarlet fever is acquired “through a bacterial infection caused by group A strep” (CDC, 2017). This group A strep is the same bacteria that causes strep throat (CDC, 2017). The fever is acquired